The Great Bread Bowl Story
That is a picture of a bread bowl. The biggest bread bowl I’ve ever seen. Here’s the Great Bread Bowl story. My son and now daughter in law were married […]
Category Archives: Nature
The beginning of the garden
I had a guy till up a bigger area cos our garden is growing. It doesn’t have anywhere to go more than this, so we will make good use of […]
The life of our seeds….and us
Here’s quick post from my favorite soap box issue: the owning of seeds and the destruction of our freedom to have and grow our own seeds. Below is a link […]
Spring fever this week
We have several beautiful warm days coming before we go back to some colder weather again for a while; normal PA spring routines. I’m always like a little animal and […]
Behold the Magic of the Earth
There’s a piece of cross stitch I did many years ago, and it hangs in my kitchen. I think of the magic of the earth often, but was especially reminded […]
Three Sisters
I’ve read a lot about a planting arrangement that’s centuries old and began with Native Americans. This is called Three Sisters, and involves planting corn, beans and squash together. For […]
Winter sowing vegetables
A good Facebook group I belong to introduced me to a process I’ve never heard of. Winter is boring for avid (read: addicted!) gardeners, cos we can’t plant anything or […]
Imbolc, our first sign of spring
We can light candles all winter in our feeble human attempt to bring back the light. Whether we do that or not, Imbolc is a special day if you’re tired of winter […]
Historic snow storm
Yesterday it snowed. Yea it did, actually started the night before and snowed hard all yesterday into last evening. They say it broke the record for the biggest snow storm since […]
My little delusions
The winter is long for serious (read: addicted) gardeners. Sometimes we try things that might not make sense, like trying to grow an outside veggie…..inside. With an east facing […]
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